Re: another chunking question - when should chunking NOT be used at

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• Subject: Re: another chunking question - when should chunking NOT be used at
• From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:19:13 -0600 (CST)

Hi Ed,
    As everyone has suggested, there are various perverse access patterns
where chunking can help, but I would generally suggest creating non-extendible
datasets as contiguous.

    Quincey

> Howdy all!
> 
> Another question relating to chunking - if we don't need it (i.e. for
> a dataset with no unlimited dimensions), do we still chunk it?
> 
> Or is it better to leave it contiguous?
> 
> (With the mental reservation that only chunked datasets will be able
> to take advantage of compression, when we get to that feature.)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ed
>